To fix cyberwarfare, check your politics at the door

I’ve noticed a trend.  Namely, that individual political inclinations – and the reservations that we have talking about politics for fear of treading on those inclinations – are having a “chilling effect” on accurate and thorough...

Kill Win32? Who are you kidding?

I saw an article today about some of the changes being discussed by Microsoft in regards to future Windows application development and their plans for Windows over the long term.  It’s an interesting  article — mostly focusing on the history of the Win32...

Vaporware: worse than you think

Everybody has some experience with vaporware, right?  That thing that you buy that you think is going to solve all your problems and then turns out to not really do much of anything. In the security world, this is now – and has been for years – a major...

Is the “skills gap” a real thing?

So you’ve heard about the cybersecurity “skills gap”?  I’m sure you have.  There’s been quite a bit of attention recently paid to it in all kinds of venues: surveys devoted to it, analysis, debates about it’s reality, and so forth....